Wednesday, December 26, 2012

helicopter (3)

Last time we talked about how rear rotor take a big part in control of helicopters. So we remain just one question... How to control the wind speed or output power of the rear rotor? How to make the rear rotor synchronized with the main rotor? How do they coordinate with each other?

Usually the rear rotor is powered by the main engine. So by adjusting the size of the gear that driving the rear rotor, we can actually synchronize the rear and the main rotor to make the helicopter remain stable within a clean condition that no other factors take in. It's just like the gearbox system on your car or your bike. But to make the maneuver practical, we need to adjust the output power of the rear rotor constantly, which is not an easy task that can be solved by simply using gears.

Since the rear rotor is driven by the main engine, the rotation speed here is fixed, no way to change the velocity of the rotation. Wait! There's one way. You can open the throttle, increasing the engine's output so that the rear output is increased. Then this problem is solved. When you get a strong wing coming from left, you increase the engine power; when you get a strong wing from right you lower the rotor speed. But hey, how about the main rotor? This solution will cause the helicopter to go up and down due to the change of output power from main rotor. So the solution thus can not be a perfect solution. It will lead to other problems. Therefore, scientists come up with an idea, "change the slope of the rear rotor's blade." Changing the slope of the blades can control the amount of wind being propelled. Thus scientists can gain fully control of the helicopter.      

視角觀點的轉換 (老闆與員工)

今天出外踏青,寫部落格時間被壓縮了... 所以托福就換到下一次吧!! 今天來講我在寫這篇之前所看的文章心得吧!

話說最近呢,接觸了許多文章以及議題,像是父母的關係、兩代的責任、還有上下屬關係等等。有時候我會想,這些人在他們一生中,也是有經歷過我們這時候吧? 像是曾經有要剛創業的時候、曾經有還是年輕人不能自力更生的時候、曾經有他們的上一代還活著的時候,難道他們都沒有遇過我們現在這個問題嗎? 覺得父母不了解自己、覺得老闆都不懂員工的價值、覺得我們生活這麼慘,上一代的人要負很大的責任。如果他們有曾經遇到類似的狀況的話,今天換了角色,他們變成了父母、變成了老闆、變成了上一代,就沒有想到他們曾經也有遇到這問題,照理來說應該能更理解對方的才是,但實際上卻是勞資雙方對立、親子不合、兩個世代也在互相看不起。如果他們沒有曾經遇到類似的狀況的話,他們就比較難了解對方的想法,所以有互相對立也可能是不可避免的。但如果有的話,是甚麼促使他們的轉變? 年輕時候有的問題,曾經想改善的問題,發誓我長大絕對不會對我小孩作的那些事,隨著時間漸漸都改變了。是因為立場的不同呢? 還是現實面沒有辦法配合?

舉例來說台積電,張忠謀說台灣缺乏「可為經濟創造附加價值的中、高層人才」,有人說他覺得最缺的是稱職的老闆和官員,在我來看,這就變成一個老闆想要做代工,一個員工想要作更大的。老闆跟員工的價值觀有差異,當老闆的當然希望它的產業穩固,可以賺錢,因為他要承擔風險。當員工的當然希望他的能力被重用,薪水很高,並且可以永續經營這個職位或是待在這個公司。所以這裡就變成當一個員工希望台積電轉型,以他自己的觀點認為代工沒有發展性,但做老闆的要評估整間公司的資源,以及所轉型的風險成本,就變成... 員工希望它更好,但有個問題,決策失敗了,那位員工要負責嗎? 大家用講的都很簡單,怎麼不去做那個、作這個比較好,很多人都會 do the right thing,但how to do things right 卻是know-how之所在,你要怎麼把一件事情做得好才是真正困難的。張忠謀不懂研發比較好嗎? 我相信他都知道,但她為甚麼選擇這個也是有它的理由。

而所謂的「人才」要怎麼定義呢? 是可以幫公司賺大錢的才叫做人才,還是可以自己開公司的才叫人才呢? 常聽到大家說,台灣有著高品質的人才,台灣的人才都流失到國外去,國外企業爭相搶用台灣人才。我會想說,既然台灣有這麼多優秀的人才,大家也知道台灣人才在外流,那為什麼這些「人才」不去創一個可以跟國外企業競爭,把更多人才留住的公司呢? 所以到底這些「人才」是甚麼樣的人才? 適合受雇於人,但卻不適合開公司? 還是這些人才不是人才? 還是台灣的環境就是沒有辦法提供給人才發揮? 

所以這到底是立場(風險、決策) 還是現實面(環境、能力) 造成人的轉變呢? 我想都是有的... 張忠謀絕對是個人才,他也把台灣很多人才留住,但他選擇的是代工這條路。如果台灣真的有很多人才,那就試著去跟他走不一樣的路吧~ 試著用大家所倡導的那些東西,要研發、要重視能力、不能把人才便奴才,來讓人才可以留住。這樣我認為這樣才是真正的人才!


Tuesday, December 25, 2012

helicopter (2)

Last time I talked about the mechanism of how helicopters can change their movement, the swashplate, now let's take a look about the anti-torque system. Why does a helicopter need an anti-torque system? What exactly the anti-torque system is? Or why airplanes don't need the anti-torque system?

Since most helicopters have one single rotor, when the rotor starts to spin, it will create a torque that try to turn the boy of helicopter to the opposite direction to the rotor. Therefore we need some mechanism to eliminate or balance this torque. The anti-torque system commonly seen on helicopters are like this one:


The rear rotor we usually see on a helicopter is the anti-torque system. It works just like a fan in every common family, it blows out wind. By giving an opposite force to the body of the helicopter, we can eliminate the torque created by the main engine, thus prevent the helicopter from going off. Some people may ask that there also have one engine airplane, a small one like this:


Why don't they need the anti-torque system? Well, actually they do have a system. Don't you see the big wings on the above picture? Those wings here can function as a anti-torque system, due to the contrast of the body to the wings are so big. Turning the airplane's body requires much force than turning the helicopter's body, so airplanes won't need a rear rotor. However, the engine does take effect on airplanes' movement. If you loose your hand on the lever, the plane will gently moves to the right by suggesting the propeller moves clock-wise. If the propeller's spin direction is counter clock-wise, the plane will gently move to the left.

We have seen helicopters lost control and crash. The malfunction of rear rotor causes the helicopter to spin and the pilot no longer hold the control of the helicopter. The video is here:

Helicopter crash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aArnj1nuPJg

So here is the question: How to control the wind speed or the output power of rear rotor in order to stabilize the helicopter? An important invention comes in, the gyro-meter. This topic will leave to the next post~~

Today is Christmas Eve. I want to introduce my favorite Christmas song: Same old lang syne. You can find the lyrics and the song at here:



http://www.tacocity.com.tw/abs1984/s20.htm

Wish everyone happy Christmas!!


Sunday, December 23, 2012

如何準備托福? (2)


繼續來介紹上一次的托福。不管你是為了什麼動機而準備的,記得報名下去就沒有回頭路了,現在邪惡的ET$將報名費漲價至US$165,並不是一筆小數目,所以在準備考試前,請帶有一定的決心,還有愉快的心情,相信老天會幫你出好你會的題目。不然在準備的時候,有時會讓你很想放棄,但只要抱持著自己的信念,相信你可以撐過去的!

聽力

繼上次我所說的,你一定要將英文融入在生活中,這樣在關鍵時刻,絕對會發生你意想不到的功效,白話一點,其實這是訓練語感的過程,你常聽常看常用就會有語感,但這需要長時間的累積,所以請不要覺得沒有立即的效果就放棄掉,而且我想要讓你知道的是英文只是一種工具,就像程式語言一樣,你應該是拿英文去做快樂的事情,而不是去學英文。

例如說:你可以常聽英文歌曲,聽多了,聽到一首好聽的,就會想去知道他到底在寫什麼歌詞,而那時你去看歌詞,你遇到不會的單字一定特別熟悉。或是你可以去打電動,打英文的電動,妳為了把它破關,把它玩懂,你勢必一定要接觸英文,而在你身後又有龐大的動力~ 驅使你,這時你的英文也會有不錯的進步(因為要查單字、也會聽到遊戲中的英文),這是親身經歷喔~~ 朋友聽到都覺得不可思議,但我覺得還不錯用,不過當然如果你是玩那種沒甚麼劇情的遊戲,可能效果就比較有限。所以言歸正傳,聽力的部分我覺得只有多聽,但聽得資源可以有很多種,這裡我還滿推薦兩種的,一個是電視上的 Discovery Channel 和 National Geographic Channel (提醒一下 Geographic 的發音要注意,跟 geography 的發音不一樣) 



不需要把字幕關掉,你也關不了XD 只要聽他們講英文,配合字幕,但你的專注力不能在字幕上,你是要去讀懂那段你聽到的「聲音」裡面所包含的意思,然後將那個意思跟那段聲音做配對,很像小時候在學習語文的時候,你聽到聲音,你去體會父母想要跟你講的意思,並把這兩個連在一起,漸漸就會聽得懂。 所以看電視也是一樣的效果,電影也是可以,但有時電影說的速度太快了,跟托福的速度不一樣,而且電影裡太多俚語,但對一般生活我想也是有幫助。

另一個資源就是有聲書,如果你有蘋果系列產品,你可以去下載有聲書聽,或是上網下載有聲書,通常只要打「書名 audiobook/有聲書 下載」相信都可以找到不錯的資源,這裡推薦一個



Digital Fortress By Dan Brown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTfuPS3i5c4

這是寫達文西密碼的作者出的書,這是在達文西密碼之前的作品,是講有關解碼學以及NSA 國家安全局的故事,我覺得滿好看(聽?)的,可能因為我是學電機的吧。在聽有聲書的時候就直接聽,可以搭配著書一起看,但我覺得在通勤的時候,聽這個很不錯,累了就睡,醒了就聽聽看他在講甚麼,是種另類的學習法。當然,在每天可以做一回聽力,來熟悉題型,並培養考試的感覺。這樣看下來,各位看官的表情會不會是這樣XD


如果真的覺得有聲書很難,也有簡單的給兒童的有聲書,可以從那裏練起,像是歌劇魅影,白雪公主都有發行有聲書,網路上也都找的到,可以先從那裏下手。或是可以就單純多聽 Discovery 配合著每天做聽力的題目,相信會有所進步的。

English songs

今天所講的部分為聽力,有什麼問題可以在底下留言,快到聖誕節了,因為上面有推廣大家多聽英文歌,所以今天推薦一首歌曲 Same Old Lang Syne 由我最喜歡的歌手之一 Dan Fogelberg 演唱!




這個網站 安德森之夢 是由一位台南人所架設的網站,裡面有許多歌曲的英翻中,還有許多西洋歌曲的有趣典故,他每周還會推薦一首西洋歌曲給大家,裡面也會有歌曲的介紹以及典故,我從這個網站上獲益良多,推薦給大家!! 

而那首歌是描述聖誕節前夕,歌手跟舊愛人在雜貨店相遇的故事,非常感人,卻也真的辛酸莫名,感慨萬千...總之是首很美的歌,希望大家會喜歡~


Saturday, December 22, 2012

RC helicopter (1)

Today I am going to make a brief introduction about RC helicopters. I will use my own RE helicopter for demonstration and some pictures from Wikipedia. I hope after reading this, you can have a wide range of view to helicopters. You know, helicopters really are a great invention.

A mini RC helicopter

Thanks to its hover feature, one helicopter can be used in many situations and distant places where it is not accessible by land vehicles. Things like saving injured personnel at a cliff, or searching a person in a wide range of field like open water requires the capability of helicopters which can hover for a very long time. The drawback of helicopters is the flying speed. On the vertical view, helicopter is very fast, far faster than airplanes. It can take off within less a minute, compared to airplanes which may need two or three minutes. However, the terminal speed of helicopters is slower than most of airplanes. Helicopters just cannot be supersonic, a modern standard required for most of fighters. Still, helicopters maintain their own glory for the unique feature that no one can reach.

The important components on helicopters must be the blades and the tail rotors. Most people may not think that much on how helicopters make their movement. They may think the blades are rotating so it just flies! But hey, how do helicopters move forward? What is the mechanism behind this? The following will introduce a component that I think is really important and revolutionary for the development of helicopters.


The lower blue part is called swashplate.

1 Non-rotating outer ring (blue)
2 Turning inner ring (silver)
3 Ball joint
4 Control (pitch) preventing turning of outer ring
5 Control (roll)
6 Linkages (silver) to the rotor blades
So here is how it works. The whole swashplate is linked to the main blades. The rotating part is the silver ring above the blue ring. When the blades rotate, only the whole part above the blue ring will follow the main blades rotation. The pivot, which is the 4th, and 5th part on the above picture, can control the direction of the blue ring. So when the rotation begins and you turn the blue ring into a 30 degree angle, the 6th part on the picture is linked to the blades, so when it follows the blades rotation, it will also be affected by the blue ring. This will cause the vertical movement of the linkage that will change the angle of the blades thus to change the wind direction and make the helicopter move forward.

A lucid demonstration of swashplate

A swashplate that tilt to a specific angle.
You can see how the linkage is affected by the lower part of  the plate.
So now you know how it works. Next post will focus on the Anti-torque system. Oh, just let you know the blades on helicopter are not fixed. You can actually move the blades part up and down like this.

You see the angle of the entire blades is 30 degree to the right. 
The blades is now tilted to the upper left.



Friday, December 21, 2012

該如何準備托福? (1)


朋友常常會問道我這個問題,該如何準備托福呢? 因為我自己是沒有補習去考試,所以這裡寫的是我自己準備托福的一些心得。每次講到托福,我常常會想到成大有個日文老師,名叫趴趴熊,在上課的時候介紹一個日文單字「おかけて」,這單字原本是「托你的福」的意思,但就他說法,同學們常常會直接寫「托福」,所以她就常常會用很誇張即帶有口音的口氣說「不是托福啦~~! 是托你的福,不一樣低~~」讓我覺得很有趣。總之,這篇來寫寫該如何準備托福吧~~

萬惡的ET$

首先,要準備托福,就要先認識托福,托福為萬惡的ETS(education test service)所舉辦的考試,這個機構很像我們台灣的全民英檢舉辦單位「LTTC財團法人語言訓練測驗中心」,他也有舉辦其他考試諸如GRE、TOEIC等等,但由於這些考試對台灣人而言實在是太貴了,且多寄發成績單的價格要價不斐,所以ETS常常被人稱作「萬惡的ET$」,所以在考試之前,請先確定您的荷包沒有問題,不然連報名都無法報名了~~

托福考試的內容

托福的考試非常全面,聽說讀寫樣樣都考,現在托福考試全面改為上機考,也就是你從頭到尾都是用電腦作答,說是說給電腦錄音,寫作是直接在電腦上打文章。而聽力部分依照我的經驗,內容大多是校園對話、日常生活對話、以及課堂上授課內容。閱讀的部分,我覺得最像的應該就是Nature網站的新聞

http://www.nature.com/news/

程度跟內容差不多都是這樣子,但托福的文章會有不同的領域,有些是音樂,有些是美術,像我自然科的人員,看這些文章,或是聽這些上課內容,多少都會有點吃力,相反的文組的同學聽這些內容,可能會比較熟悉吧。而寫作的部分則是會有兩大題,第一大題會先讓你看一段文章,之後會有個教授出來對這文章做論述,之後就依你聽到的內容加以描述,完全不需要動用到自己的思考,你聽到甚麼,就把它表達出來就好了。第二大題則是給你一個申論題,像是「你對在都市旁設立工廠的看法為?」之類的,可以讓你表達正反方的意見,這裡沒有對錯之分,你只要寫得有道理,表達清楚都可以得到高分。至於最後的口說部分,第一題會叫你用45秒表達一個想法,通常會是跟你很親近的議題,例如說「你的城市最有名的地方是?」、「你平常都休閒活動是?」之類的。而第二題則是會先說有的人認為如何,另外一派的人認為相反的事,那你自己覺得如何。第三題則是會先讓你聽一段上課內容,之後問妳問題。第四題好像是聽一段對話,然後對話中的主角會有一些問題,在你聽完那些資訊之後,你會建議那個主角怎麼做呢? 後兩題跟第三題好像很像,都是表達意見的。從這些看下來,你可以知道托福是很全面的東西,你要準備寫作,你聽力要好,閱讀也要看的懂。你要準備口說,你聽力也要不差才行。介紹完托福後,現在開始講如何準備!!!

初次考試的你

對初次要考試的各位來說,我都會先說你先去寫寫模擬試題吧~ 為甚麼會這樣說呢? 一來要先讓你知道托福到底是怎麼樣一個考試,一來是要你了解對於托福,你的程度在哪裡,你自己要努力多少才能達到你想要的目標。訪間模擬試題有很多種。官方自己也有出模擬試題TPO
裡面收錄了托福考試之前的真正考題,總共有24回,做完後他會幫你列出成績讓你參考你的得分點,我自己是覺得一開始做這個可能會打擊自信心,而且說真的他的題目偏難,可能你做完就被嚇跑了~


TPO 下載點: http://www.yeeaoobox.com/article_406.html

另外一個我比較推薦的是 Barron 所出的模擬試題,他的介面雖然跟托福長的不一樣,但是他的文章我覺得是比較貼近真實的托福難度,聽力有稍微難一點點,但整體來說,我覺得是跟托福比較像的一套模擬軟體,而且做完會讓你信心不至於整個被擊潰!!


Barron 下載點: http://www.yeeaoobox.com/article_355.html

在做完模擬測驗,也知道自己程度在哪後,你就可以開始選擇考試日期了(咦?) 哈~我想當你報名完付了錢後,自己準備的動力一定會大增!! 可以依據你自己的評估,選擇要考試的日期,如果你做完模擬測驗,聽力跟閱讀都沒有錯很多,五題以內的我想你可以選擇一個月後直接考試,而且也不用繼續看這篇文章了XD~ 十題以內的我想你可以選擇一個半月或兩個月準備再去考試,十五題內的可能就需要兩個月到三個月準備,十五題以上... 就已經錯超過半數了,可能要先從基礎開始準備,或是我後面會介紹一點點偷吃步的方法,如果有時間壓力就只能用那個方法了。

準備閱讀

閱讀的準備,我想日常的累積是很重要的,所謂的日常累積就是你現在可以想想你一天接觸到英文的時候到底有多長或是有多少機會。如果你很少機會可以看到英文,那我建議你趕快把它改掉,語言是漸漸累積的,嬰兒一開始也不會講中文,我們也是一直接觸就會的,英文也是一樣,他是一種工具,你有拿來應用到其他地方,你英文才會進步,而不是單純的學英文、背單字,下面介紹的都是會以這種學習法為出發點,可能沒辦法有立即的效果,但對於你的英文能力絕對會有幫助。所以現在可以把你最常用的臉書,電腦、信箱全部改成英文介面,手機也把它改成英文介面,要用的時候,不懂沒關係,先試試看,點進去還是看不懂在查單字,查久了,用久了,自然你就會記得那個單字的意思。



除了日常的準備外,剛剛我提到的那個網站可以督促自己每天看一篇新聞,他可是期刊的權威 Nature,對於自然組的我們來說,不僅可以吸收新知,現在科學界發生了甚麼事,也可以順便練習英文,是一舉兩得。看到不會的單字記得查字典,問題是查字典請不要用 google 翻譯之類的東西,那樣子是不會進步的,請用有例句的字典,並在查單字時,順便將字典上的例句讀過一遍,知道那個字真正的用法。這樣也可以訓練你建立英文的思考模式。在我寫英文文章時有很深的體悟,我發覺語言的建立是當你有聽過別人某一些句子,假設有人在介紹車子,你會從中學習他的說法,並在之後利用相同的語句去描述關於車子的事情。如果妳都是看到中文,自然你想描述車子的時候,你就會先想起中文的說法,之後再把她轉換成英文,這樣就會變成 An English skin with Chinese bone. 有著英文的皮膚但卻是中文的骨子。但如果你想到的是英文的用法,你自然而然說起來,或是表達就會是英文的說法。所以例句真的很重要,請不要忽略他們~ 除了看網站之外,建議每天可以寫一篇模擬試題理的閱讀文章,只要一篇就夠了,寫一次,錯幾題先不管,但寫完後將看不懂的部分查清楚,除了訓練英文閱讀之外,也可熟悉托福閱讀的文章題型,這樣做完,網站加模擬測驗,應該是一小時多,但一點一滴絕對會有所進步的。

今天先寫閱讀,發覺太多東西要說了,就把這個主題拆成好多部分來寫吧~~ 如果想要參考別人的準備方式,可以上PTT的托福版,或是搜尋「如何 托福 準備」也會有一些人有貼心得,這裡是我自己準備的部分,以及我對英文學習的看法,「托大家的福」讓大家參考看看!!!


Thursday, December 20, 2012

Childhood and Media

Last time we talked about how a majority of culture can affect other culture thus to influence our viewing material from media. This time I am talking about some TV shows or cartoons for children that would thus deeply integrate the root of foreign culture.



Ever since I was a child, I was influenced by cartoons. If there were anyone that said I didn't watch ANY cartoons during his childhood age, I would probably be so surprised. Cartoons nowadays can be divided into three major categories. One is cartoons that from Japan, one from U.S., one from Chinese society. In my personal experience, most of cartoons I watched in early age were from Japan and U.S.



The famous Cartoon Network channel not only makes many children nearsighted but also influences the formation of their values toward the world. Children are like sponges that will absorb anything they watched, anything they listened, anything they learned. So by looking at the dresses of those cartoon figures, children will try to imitate their dressing and the story or the values the cartoons trying to express would be absorbed by children. When we grew up, we may experience lots of reconstruction of our core value, maybe those we learned at childhood would probably forget or lost. However, since you have learned that before, when you touch or contact those information again, you will become very familiar with that. It's more like learning riding a bike, when you once learn this skill, you can automatically take back the skill again, even if you haven't ridden a bike for a very long long time.  We tend to accept those information we've read or watched more easier than those we read at first time. That's why it's very important to filter what children can watch, what they cannot.

Our entrepreneur don't seem to have a big interest in children media. They don't think this would help them make money or would do any help to his enterprise. But the benefit is certain in a long term way. By looking Pokemon and Hello Kitty, you can know it's a very big industry and it does make you money.



Probably the business mode now require to earn profit in an early stage. A company must gain its profit steady and fast. It cannot withstand a blank page in the company's money flow. Our government also takes little action to raise children program industries. Perhaps it's not economical in short term but I hope I can see more work invested in cartoons and TV programs one day.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

小牛宇錄(4)

今天來談點「點子」的事情吧~ 有一個想法我也是一直想了很久,不知道大家有沒有注意到地上的柏油路,(哈~沒錯! 我今天又要討論柏油路了! 可能我覺得柏油路的科技在數十年來都沒有進步吧。) 在這個寸土寸金的時代裡,柏油路相對的令人感覺廉價,由此就有個想法蹦出來,「如果將全世界所有的柏油路聚在一起會是什麼樣子呢?」我想依全世界道路的密集度,勢必會形成一個島嶼

試算一下好了,假設 道路的寬度為5m 一個400m X 500m 大小的地方平均到互會有 3m X 400m + 2m X 500m 的面積,也就是 2200m2 上網查,地球所擁有的土地面積為 149,000,000km2 = 149,000,000,000,000m2 把所有的除以剛剛的區塊大小,200,000m2 就會有 745,000,000 塊剛剛估算的區塊,再乘以裡面的道路面積 745,000,000 X 2200m2 = 16,390,000,000 m2 = 16,390 km2 的面積是柏油路在地球上。

根據維基,這樣的大小大概會大於東帝汶的國土面積 14,874 平方公里,是想在地球上有個島嶼,上面全布滿柏油,黑壓壓的一片,我想對於能源效率,以及地球暖化都是個不小的影響。


因此,我想到了該如何把這個很低科技,而且很浪費能源的柏油路取代掉,當然成本不能太高,這裡推薦一個TED的演講,

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_trent_energy_from_floating_algae_pods.html

這是提出一個如何有便宜的生質能源的方法,它裡面有提到製造生質燃料有很多種方法,但你要怎麼讓他符合經濟效益,才是更大的重點。也因此,在柏油路這裡,也必須要想一個可以盡量符合經濟效益的方法,不然的話,可以把太陽能板都鋪在路面,這樣當然是最好的,可惜實在是太貴了。所以,我想到說利用大自然的力量,把道路變成植物可以生長的地方,由此不僅可以綠化都市環境,也可以減少二氧化碳。但是呢~ 通常路被車子壓過以後,幾乎已經寸草不生了。且泥土路對於下雨天會有很大的安全顧慮。


所以呢~在這時我看到了一個設計我覺得還不錯,成大太子學院那裏也有這種設計。


如果把道路都變成這樣有個空間讓植物去生長,這樣不就可以減少能源的浪費嗎? 但實際試驗發現,這種道路被車子壓了以後,上面的草還是會枯死,所以這種路也許需要一種改良,而我認為草會枯死的原因,是因為土地表面跟車子行駛表面幾乎在同一個水平,所以車子行駛中還是會壓到草,而且生長空間內排水不良,下雨天後草也容易枯死。所以呢,我想到利用高架橋的方式,把車子行駛表面墊高一點點,大概五公分厚就可以了,讓草有生長面積,不會被壓到,且排水良好,而且墊高五公分的成本並不會增加很多,跟實際的高架橋還是有區別。另外,我認為要達到最好的能源效益,我想可以把水泥地或是柏油路轉換成上面帶有小洞的壓克力路面,他可以透光因為是透明的,有小洞雨水可以滲進去,壓克力夠便宜且堅固,這種方法是我想到的最終解,等於是把整個行車平面往上抬高,並把下面的土地留給植物去完全生長,而這裡不需要很高的植物,大概會是草皮那種高度的。

到了這裡,把整個想法統合一遍,因為柏油路占地非常廣闊,所以把柏油路取代掉,換成墊高的壓克力路面,下面空間留給植物生長,可以達到美化,並且節能減碳的功效!!

不知道大家有甚麼樣不一樣的想法,歡迎大家提出來討論!


Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Media and Culture Effect(1)

If you turn on a TV now, you can see most of the news channel would report the melancholy tragic about 20 lovely kids were killed by a teenager out of his mind. This is a tragic that shock the whole world and most of the world have taken different actions to soothe victims' sorrow. I feel really sad to the victims and anger to the murderer. How cruel is he can he kill so many innocent and beautiful children. At the same time,  news reported that in China, a man brought a knife to elementary school trying to kill innocent children. No one were killed in this tragedy. Of course, this crucial part results in less news amount from media. But from a larger scale of view, you will find out whole world, almost entire world, pay their attention to the news or at least know the news. What makes this different? I think we should talk about how culture effect media.


Main culture

Living in modern world, most of our information come from news report, internet. So how we conceive the world, how we know about the world, you can say is actually controlled by media. Therefore how content to be chose to broadcast plays an really important role. Usually, media reports news that they think their audience would like it or they report a content that someone pay money to make media report. Well, the later one is a different story, though. Here, how content makes our audience interested? People grew up from society. So we will be affected by our surroundings. What our parents watch, what they think will definitely affect our later development of value toward the world. Your parents also follow this pattern to develop their own value toward the world. But the external force, i.e. foreign culture will also affect our thinking. For example, our habit to wear suite during working is from western culture. Even our modern cloth style is from western culture. So when broadcasting news, media would prefer the so-called main stream, here would be western culture or in precise, american culture. The famous Gangnam style, Jeremy Lin is all famous from american market, then they can be sold to whole world. In other world, if you can win main culture market, you can win the world in most cases. But to a society that information are spreading relatively slow, like China, all you need to succeed is to copy the already-success american business. The scale of Chinese market will help your business run smoothly without bankrupt. All you need is to localize those features invented by others. Rinrin net(人人網) is a copycat of Facebook. Xiaomi(小米) cell phone is trying to manipulate iPhone's experience and make Xiaomi phone as the iPhone of android.


So... if you don't have a great idea and want to make a huge business, just follow the trend in western and localize it mainland China.

Next post will focus about the child media that affect our economy and culture!!


Monday, December 17, 2012

感情與市場機制


最近時事有感,我想今天就以理性的態度,外加超多的感性,來討論「男朋友,女朋友」!! 不是電影喔,我想討論的是感情的態度。

[初期]

剛開始都不認識都兩個人,是如何在一起的呢? 我想這問題非常重要,女生方面似乎會說「當然是兩個人互相欣賞,感覺對了,然後男生追求,我就跟他在一起了阿」。但男生方面我想並不是那麼想,多少人是因為女生很正,因為生理需求而去追求的呢? 其實也不一定,但我想男生方面多少的動機都有點不單純吧?
不管怎麼說,在一起的動機會影響到之後的發展,更甚之會影響到感情中的地位,何以見得呢? 這就要從人性、以及市場機制說明起。

[中期]

當成為男女朋友之後,喜歡的理由以及自己想達成的目的,還有對愛情的觀感、家庭因素就會開始影響你這段時間到底快不快樂。
愛情觀我想是有很多種的,有的人認為在一起就是互相扶持,有的人認為在一起就是互相欣賞,有的人認為在一起就是互相努力,有的人認為在一起就是互相尊重,等等... 每個人的愛情觀都不一樣。所以當兩個人在一起時,要怎麼互相包容彼此的價值觀就非常重要,也是愛情可以長久的關鍵。但是呢....總是有那總不能包容的時候,所以這時候妥協變得非常重要...也就是誰愛的比較多,變成很大的重點,如果對方是那種耐得住寂寞,抑或是那種其實不是很愛你,那你就會很麻煩了,依據市場機制,當一個人握有的籌碼比較多,你就會變得比較吃虧的那一方,這就像當初iPhone 出來的時候,一個人很想要他,但貨源就只有這麼多,你就必須要付出更高的代價,來獲得自己的目的。
但為什麼一個人可以很愛,一個人比較不愛呢? 我想這除了跟個性有關,最重要的還是市場機制問題,比較不愛,可能是他有很多種其他的選擇,你不是他的唯一,他有很多其他誘惑。不然就是他帶有其他目的,不是真的想真心跟你交往。總總都會造成一方地位下降,對於感情也會是個傷害。

[末期]

當兩個人因為很多事情,像是期待落空,或是觀念不合,夢想不對,之類的一直吵架後,雙方可能就會走到末路,這裡開始才是我想討論的重點。不管愛不愛,喜不喜歡,能夠在一起就代表曾經互相心有靈犀。但現在卻說要分開,是因為其中有一方不願意妥協呢?還是說有義方覺得總是會有更好的選擇?能夠走到結婚,我想有時候不是因為真的契合,而是因為時間剛好到了,或是很晚成為男女朋友,雙方外在的籌碼都越來越少了,有點不得已,或是沒有選擇,所以才結婚。也有很多剛結婚就超級後悔的,覺得我幹嘛跟他結婚? 自己是不是選擇錯誤了。但結婚跟交往的不同是結婚比較有約束力,很多人因為結婚這個大框架而願意妥協,反過來說,太早交往的人,因為外在因素很多,且現代人又仗恃著反正還有千千萬萬個男生女生讓我挑選,我幹嘛為了你犧牲這麼多之類的,變成想分手就分手,不喜歡就換一個。這裡我想沒有對錯之分,純粹只是外在因素與感情雙方權衡下,所做的選擇。不知道有那種我還有很多選擇的人或是下一個會更好的人是怎麼想的? 最近因為一些契機,跟年邁的人有些接觸,讓我體會到人老了,你珍惜的東西也會不一樣,人終究是不能脫離人群而生活,年邁時財產那些反而不重要了,重要的是有一個人可以陪你走完一生,願意支持你,願意分享你們共同的生活。你年輕有本錢大家會喜歡你,當你老了時候,當你失敗的時候,那些你一直挑選的人,還會願意陪在你身邊嗎? 不要忘了你挑別人,別人也在挑選妳啊。當年老時,身邊只有一個人對我來說真的是非常悽慘、悲慘的景象。還是說有人可以因為自己的夢想,而孤獨一生呢? 
我想最理想的狀況,還是當你追求夢想時,別人看到你的夢想,把它變成自己的夢想,一起追尋,也許世界上很多偉人都是這樣吧~ Dream Big!

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Android v.s. iOS v.s. Windows Phone 8, which one is better?

Android v.s. iOS v.s. Windows Phone 8, which one is better?


To most users, they seem to have plenty of choices around the smart phone market. My friends wold ask me, what is your suggestion? iPhone or hTC or Nokia? Most people don't know their distinct features, also their differences. Now I will make some brief introduction to these different operating systems, so that helping customer to make the right choices when you buy a smart phone.

Running Environment

iOS can only be run on iPhone, which is very different than the other two. iOS is bounded with Apple product. Only iPod, iPhone, iPad can run iOS. Other devices can no way to run an iOS system. Even if they can, they will be considered illegal to do such implement. Android and Windows Phone 8 are different stories. Windows Phone 8 allows manufacturers like Samsung, hTC, Nokia to follow Microsoft's basic hardware restriction and so to produce Windows Phone. Certain criteria like CPU level, button configuration is strictly restricted by Microsoft to ensure best user experience. On the other hand, Android is like a free nation. Anyone can use it. That's why you can see so many different brands' machine running android. Well, comparing the money you need to spend to reach a specific system, it would be iOS>WP8>Android.

Application Support

Currently on the App store for iOS, it has over 1 million apps for users to download. Android catches behind for an app amount of 700,000. Windows Phone 8 however, only have 120,093 apps available in stock. Therefore, if you are a heavy user to games, some weird applications, you probably need to choose iPhone. 
Android have a huge amount of apps, but due to the variety of the machine running on it, there will be incompatibility on Android apps. One machine can run the app for instance, other machines might not be able to run or not be running that app as smooth as the previous machine does. Therefore in this aspect, iOS>> android>=WP8.

Upgrade Support 

Android here is really notorious for its system upgrade. Android's system upgrade is given to each manufacturer for their own devices' maintenance. What is this mean? This means if the manufacturer, Samsung, hTC etc.. don't have their plan to upgrade the device you are holding. You will never have a chance to get official upgrade from them. Even if Google has published android 4.0, 5.0, you will not get an upgrade. Though you can still find an unofficial firmware from internet if it does exist. Here you cannot use a PC logic, "I have my hardware, I can install any operating system as I want", in smart phone field, this idea just won't work.
iOS and Windows Phone 8 are relatively better on upgrade support. iOS will support its upgrade to a very early mdoel of iPhone with some function being disabled. Windows Phone 8, on the other hand, guarantee to  have a 18 months upgrade to all devices, or does it? If we look at the past, Microsoft has its record failing to keep upgrading promise. Windows Phone 7.8 is the legacy to this. Redmond had announced that all previous device running Windows Phone 7.5 can only be upgraded to Windows Phone 7.8, an OS with partial functions of WP8. Rumors said that Redmond doing this is only because they changed the core of entire OS to match up with Windows 8, that's why the previous devices cannot be upgraded and it will not happen again if you buy a new Windows Phone now. Hey, but who knows?

Conclusion

This is a really brief comparison between these different OS. The detailed comparison can be found on the link below. All the above are my own opinion and some facts related to that topic. I won't say it's very objective, but you can treat this as a reference.
http://cdn-static.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/mobiles/ios-android-blackberry-windows-phone-infographic-full.jpg


Saturday, December 15, 2012

[討論] 有人心臟大不加班的嗎


你能不能這樣做


並非你是下屬你的談判地位就低落,在某些利害關係之下,公司需要你的程度會大於


你需要公司的程度,員工有其罩門、主管跟公司也有其罩門,身為社會人應該要有能


力去了解上下級、部門間以及公司間的利害關係。這會幫助你溝通、辦事以及決策。



你該不該這樣做


凡事從目的去倒推思考更可以幫助你決策,建議可以從加班對你的生涯規劃有什麼幫


助來思考起,若你追求內部升遷,你可能裡子要顧,表面也要顧。但你若追求外部升


遷或是轉換行業,下班後的時光遠比加班來的重要。如此一來就不會人云亦云,別人


加班我就加班,別人打混我就打混,要記得多數人都不是成功者,太在意多數人眼光


者是不會有大成就的。

[討論] 有人心臟大不加班的嗎


 這半年多以來,我也開始不加班。當然我也是黑掉的人。


    我不是很確定是先黑掉所以開始不加班,還是不加班所以黑掉。不過這的確是    個惡性循環。一直到老闆和員工兩邊都有一定的體認。達到平衡點為止。


    不過很確定的是,這樣的我。百分之兩百沒有往上爬、當主管的機會。不管能    力如何。原因也不是因為比其他員工少工作了幾個小時、貢獻少了一些。最重    要的是:你不能『配合』加班。上面不可能升一個『配合度』不高的員工當主    管。


    一開始不加班,我還有一點不太好意思,因為當其他同事在打拚時,我卻先走    了。但後來某幾次的計畫,老闆事先分配好工作。其他人要做十天的工作,我    在兩天就完成了。我才體認到,原來我的工作效率就算不加班也比別人好很多    。於是之後就開始不加班了。但可以確定的是,不要指望分紅可以拿多少了。    這想想的確很不公平,因為我就算不加班,做的事還是比別人多啊!


    老實說,讓員工加班,很多時候,是老闆自己管理失當。比方說攬了太多不必    要的工作回來或是用錯誤的人做錯誤的事,更或者是做了錯誤的決策,於是讓    下面的員工用加班來彌補自身或更上級的錯誤。也有很多時候,是因為上面決    策一拖再拖、一改再改。壓縮了計畫最後的時程。


    科技對在跑一個計畫,通常都是從幾個人的決策開始一直到一小群人的先行者    一直到最後一大群人開始跑計畫。但加班的,往往是在最後的一大群人。也就    是工程師,因為計畫時程來不及了。但會精打細算的老闆們似乎常常忘計去    檢討整個計畫的流程。尤其是一開始決策的拖延或不精準的判斷。而只會去鞭    策最後執行的一大群工程師們要求加班。如果公司都有付加班費,如果我是大    老闆,我寧可叫幾個主管來加班做出明快的決策。而不是拖到最後,要一大群    工程師來加班趕進度。


    但在台灣的科技業,反正計畫完成就好了,也不會想要去檢討整個流程有什麼    改進的地方。當然,在上述計畫的流程裏,目前的狀況是主管不用加班,工程    師要加班。應該也很少主管會有道德勇氣,把責任跟付出攬在自己身上。



    如果我們都不加班,老闆就會安排最適當的工作給我做,事情先規畫好才往下    丟。因為工程師的時間就跟預算一樣,是有限的,於是老闆會去斤斤計較。假    設一直有免費的預備的預算讓老闆們花用。老闆當然是不用白不用。於是乎,    老闆的管理效率就會跟著低落。


    很奇怪的是,明明就做一樣的事,A不用加班就可以完成、B要加班才能完成,    為什麼上面會喜歡B,給予B比較多分紅呢?照理來說,公司少付了加班費給A,    請A來工作成本較低才對啊! 我觀察了許久。發現原因是上面的人喜歡有隨    叫隨到的感覺。但更深入的去想,真的事情就差晚上幾個小時嗎?更何況明早    請A來做,效率快的他,也許一下子就完成了。


    再來,還有一種會讓員工加班的原因:不想讓上面的人覺得自己太閒。於是為了    逼不加班的人加班,於是就塞了更多、更多的工作給他。但說穿了,這是主管管    理上的問題,無法靠真正的產出來分辨績效的高低。不會去珍惜有人在上班時間    內的高效率,而只想要去榨取他更多的時間。但這往往像童話故事裏殺雞取卵的    故事,但最後搞得員工和老闆的關係變差。


    人不是機器,需要休息才能有更好的產出。但台灣的老闆的佔有慾太強,只想把    人當機器,24hr運轉。其實往往忘了有去檢討整個管理的流程。換個角度想,如    果管理得當,以在科技業不用加班(或不用常常加班)的公司為號召。相信對不少    優秀的人會是很大的吸引力。


    最後,提醒一下辛勞工作的朋友們,勞基法會訂定最高工時,是有他的理由。超    出負荷時,還是得勇敢跟老闆說不。我常跟自己說,我沒想要賺得比別人多,但    我一定要活得比他們健康。

TOEFL independent writing practice#2


25. It has recently been announced that a large shopping center may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.


A large shopping center has many exotic goods and their prices are relatively cheap. So there are more and more places under construction of big shopping center. However, building a shopping center that huge would bring some impacts to local town. Here are some aspects.
First, to build a large shopping center, it must need a wide range plain. This is usually acquired from farm lands which are suitable food sources for small wild animals. And to solve the traffic that is brought by shopping center, roads and parking lots also need to be built. These behaviors would also destroy the nature surrounding and environment. Protecting our environment is a big issues discussed worldwide. So factors related to environment should be considered when building shopping centers.
Second, the local business will be affected by a huge business like shopping centers. Shopping centers can provide abundant choices of stocks and the prices can be cheaper due to the large amount of goods they imported. Local business doesn’t have such advantages to compete with. There were already many true cases that local businesses were forced to shut down after a shopping centers came in.
Finally, people have to change their habits. Though some of people can earn their jobs in shopping center and customers can have more convenience, the life style originally existed would total disappear. Compare to past, buying stuffs in shopping center does not need a communication with a clerk. All you have to do is to choose you what you want and give it to the clerk , And the clerk uses a scanner to calculate your total amount. That is all. A tiny interaction with others would result in unfamiliar feeling between town residents.
As a result, I do not support the construction of large shopping center. The value of old living style would vanish. And the core value between people would be less important. Life is meant to be connected, isn't it?

TOEFL independent writing practice#1


Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The most important aspect of a job is the money a person earns. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.


Why do you go to work? Most of people do for their living, since jobs can make money and money can fulfill your desire. However, there are other factors that affect people to choose a job.
First, the development of your current job is actually a very important point when people select their jobs. Will this job help me to get a higher position? Can this job last for a long time? These are very essential for job consideration. If one job only last for a week with a great payment, it may not be a better choice than a job that last longer with a fairly low payment. In a long term condition, the total number of money you earned from a job lasted longer may exceed that form a shorter job. Also, if a job cannot take you to a higher position, you will end up with a payment that will not change through years. Therefore, the development of the job is a crucial key point to people.
Second, the location of the working place plays an important role. If a person with a family need to go abroad for working, to get a higher pay, he may resign a job simply because he has a family to take care of. That is, location of your working place affects your daily life. If one needs to commute two hours to work, it would take him four hours on transportation and that is one sixth for a day. He may not have enough time to spend on families, his habits, and his friends. So the location should be listed as an aspect when choosing jobs.
Finally, the most important of all is your interest toward the job. If you cannot gain satisfaction through the job, your life will become black and white. I have seen many true stories. One is that my friend chose a job with a higher pay. However the job required him to work almost twenty hours a day. Besides that, he didn't really enjoy in that job. In the end, he did become rich, but he also screw up his own body. And the money he earned were all used in medical treatment. That is why your interest should be the most important point when your select the job. You earn money is to spend them. It is meaningless if you cannot spend your money. After all, life is meant to be happy.

小牛宇錄(3)


製造與回收


首先,先推薦大家一本書,

http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010390045

這本書幾乎跟我想的概念是一樣的,看這個應該會比較完整。
嫌麻煩的話,

http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/03/25/how-the-end-of-ipad2/

這裡有比較為現代人所接受的圖像文字摘要版(大概吧XD) 有興趣的人可以先點點看。

環保議題我們先從,氣候變遷說起好了,還記得侏儸紀公園嗎? Michael Crichton這本書的作者,是很有名反對氣候變遷學說的人,詳情可以看他的書State of fear(恐懼之邦)裡面有寫說他不支持氣候變遷的理由。不知道各位支不支持有氣候變遷的存在,可以確定的是大家都不喜歡大氣中有很多碳,因為會造成溫室效應。不管如何,京都議定書的簽屬是事實,這裡提供WIKI所顯示的京都議定書之資料

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

從第一次看張圖時我嚇到了,原來現在只有美國沒簽(面積大的國家中),其他都一片綠,真好阿~ 會這樣想你就錯了XD 事實上,京都議定書經過多次的改版,很多協議已經是妥協下的產物,但是有現至總比沒限制好,不知道你覺得這樣是正確的嗎?
總之,京都議定書裡面最讓我感興趣的是所謂的碳交易,詳情請見這裡

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_trade

碳交易記得我第一次聽到的時候,我心裡想這個機制真聰明,利用利益的方式,去鼓勵大家節碳。所謂的碳交易的重點,就是當某公司利用節碳的製程,所省下來本來應該要排出的碳,就可以賣給會製造很多碳的公司。由此可以鼓勵大家發展節碳能源,對於較不節碳的公司,成本會增加,反應在消費者上的話,就是越環保越便宜。凡事總是不能盡如人意,這十就要請大家看看這個

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwLF5INAfc&feature=related

不知道看完後大家有什麼感想,但就我自己的感覺,碳交易好像被他說的萬劫不復,不應該繼續來執行。但我自己認為,他提出的點,都不是碳交易的本質,像所謂的介定節碳的部分,由人把原始樹砍了,再種下去人工樹,這樣可以節碳,大家應該都覺得很不可思議。但這環節的問題實際上是監督,是誰去監督所謂的節碳標準,這個才是應該去改善的,而不是一昧否定他。就向法律是死的,執行的人是活的,有人也會因為法官的判決而說司法不公。所以我自己的想法是覺得應該要逐步改善,不是一竿子打翻一條船。
那我要講得跟碳交易有什麼關係呢? 生活中,每當我再丟垃圾桶的時候,都會先看包裝上的回收標誌,到底要丟什麼才好呢?會有這個問題產生。也會有例如說,我丟了一支原子筆芯,上面有回收標誌,我就會想這麼小跟細的東西到底是要怎麼回收的阿,這真的可以回收再利用嗎? 種種疑問會在我腦袋中產生。
因此,衍生一個概念,如果可以從他的製造過程中下手,當你在想製造過程的時候,同時也要想它的回收過程,那不是回收的效率可以大大的提高,並且這個也會造成另一種商機。(需要想的人,需要研發的人)但不可否認的,成本會增加。降低成本的關鍵就在於利用這個回收。回收業事實上是有利潤的,但從來都沒有人想要把眼光放在這裡,製造產品很重要,回收就不重要了嗎? 這是一個很神奇的概念。所以公司藉由賣回收辦法給回收業,回收業從回收東西賺取利潤(賣錢),從而造成一個循環,永續利用,就跟碳循環所倡導的概念是一樣的。
所以,希望概念可以發展,或是政府立法規定(?) 或許可以創造綠色經濟來振興市場。
不知道大家再付錢時,有沒有好奇自己手上的錢是怎麼來的,是賺來的?印鈔場印的?父母給的? 又或是每次當你聽到國家負債好幾億時,當你又在聽到許多國家都負債好幾億時,你有想過怎麼大家都在負債,那誰是賺錢的那位呢? 在我看來,所謂的經濟是建構在資源上面的,漁夫用魚換錢,煉鋼廠用鋼換錢,我們有多少錢建構在我們提取了多少的資源,而這個現象在大部分來說是一直線的,也就是我們一直不斷挖礦,砍樹,已提供整個經濟體原原不絕的活力,但如果回收的部分可以增加效率的話,經濟體的結構就可以改變。由此可以保護資源,剩下來的問題就是回收所需要的能源部分了,(不要忘了 挖礦也是要能源的)
所以整個概念其實很簡單,最前面的那兩個連結已經把這個概念表達得很好了,我指是再補充一些我想講的而已。
下一篇,想要講講所謂的「平等」加上一點點「自由」好了,有想法的人請務必讓我知道~~!!! 或是對這篇有任何問題可以發表喔~~~!!!
绮羅星!! (<ゝω・)

小牛宇錄(2)


石油


經過上次貼完柏油路的想法後,有人貼上「綱之鍊金術師」的回應,讓我想到很久以前我的一個思考。不知道大家對石油的印象是什麼,我對石油的認知,依照教科書的說法,大多數地質學家認為石油像煤和天然氣一樣,是古代有機物通過漫長的壓縮和加熱後逐漸形成的。按照這個理論石油是由史前的海洋動物和藻類屍體變化形成的。(陸上的植物則一般形成煤。)經過漫長的地質年代這些有機物與淤泥混合,被埋在厚厚的沉積岩下。在地下的高溫和高壓下它們逐漸轉化,首先形成臘狀的油頁岩,後來退化成液態和氣態的碳氫化合物。由於這些碳氫化合物比附近的岩石輕,它們向上滲透到附近的岩層中,直到滲透到上面緊密無法滲透的、本身則多空的岩層中。這樣聚集到一起的石油形成油田。
也就是說,石油是從過去動植物而來的,剛好跟「鋼之鍊金術師」中的「賢者之石」的概念互相吻合,都是利用生命去獲得能量。換句話說,其實我們是把古代的動植物拿去練成後,作成賢者之石(汽油),來讓自己的鍊金術(工業)變成更強大。該不會漫畫的作者已經有這個體悟了,才會把賢者之石的製作方式描寫成這樣吧。不是巧合的話,真的滿佩服這位作者的。
所以石油要好好珍惜,踩著別人的屍體前進,從大自然就可以應證這個道理。

小牛宇錄(1)


之前就有這個想法了,只是一直沒有付諸實行。總覺得好像應該要寫英文的,才能順便訓練自己的英文程度。不過,凡事總要有個起頭,先從中文的也是不錯的。
這個單元是想要寫出在生活中的一些想法,對事情的看法,創信的概念等。希望分享出去讓人知道,造成影響力,可能會有人抱持著不一樣的意見,也歡迎大家提出來討論,畢竟每個人的立場與想法都不一樣。
這裡提出寫這個單元的動機。在這些日子以來,社會已經轉型成資訊爆炸的社會。其中的現象包含社群網站的興起,網路作家的流行,部落格的出現,智慧型手機的發展等等。這些現象的共同點乃是資訊的傳播,資訊就是力量,當你知道許多別人不知道的事情,你就擁有比別人更多的優勢。反過來看,當有越來越多人知道你的時候,你也比別人擁有更多的優勢,例如說:大陸有一陣子很有名的犀利哥,他本來只是路過被攝影師拍進去,但後來一傳十,十傳百,就會有片商去找他工作了。這裡我們看出一個很重要的前提,就是必須要先有「傳播」才有可能被他人所知。舉凡文字、照片、影像、聲音、體感都是表達自己想法的好媒介,有一句話說得很好「你不說,別人怎麼會知道呢?」縱使你是一個很有想法的人,你不去表達,是不會有人知道你那豐富又據有創新的想法的。常有人說,人生苦短,來世走一遭就是為了留下些什麼。我認為創作、文字表達就是一個很好的題材,像日本鈔票上的人物幾乎是日本的文學家,縱使他們已經離開世上多年,但他們的想法還是完整的保留在世界上。據我所知,很多人想要生小孩也是因為想把自己的一部分,可以繼續在這世上流傳吧。
這裡不得不提到我的兩個朋友,朋友A給我的感覺是非常精通3C產品,對於許多3C產品都有獨到的見解。就像網路上很受歡迎的開箱文一樣,很多人需要大家來分享這些3C資訊,因為即使在這麼發達的社會,不會用電腦的人比你想像中多很多。這裡不會用指的是不能自己解決電腦問題的人,大家可以想想,至少我在網路上,以及自己身邊的經驗是告訴我不會的人還是大多數。也因為如此,我曾多次跟他建議,讓他分享他自己對3C產品的看法。不過他好像意興闌珊,覺得很麻煩(?) 我自己本身是覺得有點可惜,畢竟這是他的一個商機,只要他肯去作,這個又跟他的興趣結合,一定會有不小的收穫的。
另外一位朋友B是對時事很有想法的人,他常常有一些對於時事的獨到看法,這位朋友比較好的地方是他其實會表達他的想法出去,但大多時候都太零星了,沒有一個彙整,也讓人覺得不夠深入。或是他用B板來表達他的想法,但我個人認為B板太過於狹隘了,資訊不能好好傳播。曾經我也跟他說,讓他去常是寫寫部落格之類的文章,不過他好像也覺得很麻煩(?) 而且似乎他的興趣不是在這裡,他好像比較喜歡互助合作之類的活動參與。各有優缺點,我本身是覺得有點可惜就是了。
回歸正題,最近無意間找到了一本書叫作「超‧殺人事件」,由東野圭吾所寫,內容是描寫作家寫推理小說的種種情境。這本書其實是由東野圭吾在雜誌上發表的短邊所編輯而成,聽說歷時五年以上,所以每一篇都是滿有創意的故事內容,這裡可以參考世界奇妙物語所作的超稅金對策殺人事件 http://www.youmaker.com/video/sv?id=0ce959cc0d5e4f9392705002d8a82a1c001 改編至小說中的第一篇,非常有趣,這裡就不劇透了讓觀眾自己去品味。
至於世界奇妙物語,也是我因緣際會下知道的,其實這我以前就有在電視上看過,以前國興衛視在深夜時段曾經以《午夜怪談》之名播出,當時他們好像都挑比較恐怖的片段播出(不然怎麼叫午夜怪談!)其實,他們把許多有創意的故事短片化,不是只有那些恐怖的鬼故事而已,而且這裡面有許多大家熟知的明星,像深田恭子、木村拓哉等。建議大家取找來看看,以後我再把每篇的感想個別成一篇好了,這裡也不要劇透大家了。
寫完之後發覺,主要的內容好像寫的比較少。其實本來這篇是要寫泊油路那個的想法,不過我在之前就先寫完了(冏) 導致這篇變成分享文了XD 只好在下面附上之前寫的,大家不要打我阿(逃~)

柏油路
如果有一種方法可以把補過的地方變得跟沒補的一樣平就好了
所以這是個商機
有這方法出現 政府會很樂意買下它的
利用黏土來模擬 把黏土鋪成平的 中間被你割下一塊正方形
當你再利用其他黏土把那正方形填滿時 一定會有坑洞產生
最好的方法就是把黏土整塊拿起來 重新揉一揉 再一次鋪成平的
所以柏油路才要每次都重新鋪一次
不過當中的科學園裡還是不太懂
就像為什麼紙被剪刀剪開後,在不能再把它完整的接回去了
微觀來看,不就是分子的碰撞,把其他分子間的吸引力消除了嗎?
那如果再給他能量,為什麼不能變回來呢?
這難道真的是一個不可逆的過程?
不知道哪裡有介紹這種力的文章??

English Corner

First time I participated in English Corner was at last summer vacation. I actually knew this activity for long time, so if you asked me why you come to English Corner so late, all I can tell you was I might be so busy in club or school stuffs. Anyway, after started my first class in English Corner, I found out this activity can help me improve my English speaking skill and the most important of all you can meet so many different people here. Take me as a example, I met Joey, a friend from Chicago. He is a swimming coach and we have a great time playing chess, seeing a movie together. Also I met Chen, the assistant (or teacher) of English Corner. He is really nice. Not only did he teach me lots of English vocabulary, but also introduce some wonderful movies and actors. One is “Two and Half Man”, a sitcom with much easier English for us to understand. Well, I personally recommend this series. Those episodes are really interesting and funny, making you laugh to death. I really thank Chen for his contribution to our students and also being a friend of mine. We together hold Christmas party and have a funny lunch time every week. Others are Neil, Steven, Ryan, Allen, and Janice...... so many people you can meet and become friends here. 

So, stop wasting your lunch time. Come to English Corner. You will find how fascinating and charming English is. Meet different people here. You will find how big the world is. And do not worry about your lunch. They also provide free lunch. After all, why should we miss a free lunch?

Christmas Eve: a day for commemorating yourself and past

Same old lang syne 


First time I heard this song was in my junior high. At that time, I didn't know what the song wants to tell us. But oneday at my high school age, I incidentally heard this song again. Since my english was more better, I knew the song was telling us a beautiful but melancholic story. When I listened the song at Christmas Eve, I was simply touched and recall the old time when I was still in junior high. Maybe life is like black chocolate, bitter but sweet. In the past, my solution to those painful and pathetic memories is to forget them. However you can not face the future if you keep evading them. This is what I have learned through these years. It seems like I am a kind of self-confident. Well, I just want to say I can stand here is totally because my past accompanying with many friends, my parents, and those I love. 

Here is the song: Same old lang syne http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=QExQCwn6kwg&feature=related 

I like the lyrics:The snow turned into rain. 
Wish you love this song. 

Dan Forgelberg, the singer passed away in Dec, 16, 2007. I was really sad about him. He was only 59. He left us many great songs like Leader of the band(one of my favorite), Longer(rank no.1 in pop list), and Run for the roses. These are really legendary songs (as I would call them). 
Next time, I will introduce the singer and his song more thoroughly. 

Leave your comments about anything. I would really appreciate.